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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by bildung on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:43AM (#27957878)
I assume Tesla was just trying to be cheap. As soon as the water supplier said Teslas expected demand (372 m³ per hour) wouldn't be possible, the demand suddenly shrank to 243 m³ per hour. So my guess is that Tesla tried to reduce capex by employing more wasteful water usage but now has to work more efficiently. https://www.quarks.de/umwelt/wie-problematisch-ist-der-bau-v...
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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:09PM (#27965518)
I think the demand was peak demand, so all you need to reduce that is a) accept it as a bottleneck and slow the most water intensive process to spread the peak out, or b) add a buffer pool.
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